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Nations have sunk billions of dollars into carbon capture and storage for coal plants and have little to show for it. A new natural gas demonstration plant outside Houston is confident it is up to the task — without using federal grants.

April 14 - NPR

Retail across the US is shrinking precipitously. Where does that leave parking? Scott Doyon has pointers on not applying old logic to new dynamics.

April 14 - PlaceShakers

What a difference a wet winter makes.

April 14 - KQED

City branding got jokes.

April 14 - CityLab

According to a report in The Telegraph, some U.K. cities want to use air pollution as a reason to remove speed bumps, Peter Walker argues this idea is ludicrous.

April 13 - The Guardian

Citing data that show a large share of people killed while walking or biking were drunk, some are calling for programs to educate the public of the danger of walking and biking while under the influence of alcohol.

April 13 - Pittsburg Post-Gazette

Henry Grabar argues that the United States has already too many roads, and the burden of maintenance costs and the sprawl encouraged by road-building should make new roads and bridges the country's last priority.

April 13 - Slate

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At an annual gathering of land use journalists, we came away with more questions than answers about how the Trump administration will treat cities.

April 13 - Josh Stephens

In Chicago, food trucks are disappearing and some blame the city’s stepped up enforcement of regulations and fines.

April 13 - Chicago Reader

The curious and, at times, dangerous design of bus lanes that move against the flow of traffic in Mexico city will be expensive and time-consuming to take out, so the city looks for ways to work with what it has.

April 13 - CityLab

Seeing "No Matter Where You're From" signs in liberal-leaning towns makes me both smile and cringe. Why? Because I know the tolerant message belies the real feelings many have towards neighbors, not from other countries, but "other" neighborhoods.

April 13 - Shelterforce/Rooflines

China's "One Belt, One Road" program to create a network of trade routes across Eurasia took a major step forward this week when a freight train bearing export goods disembarked from the United Kingdom bound for China's Zhejiang province.

April 13 - Railway Gazette

The Trump Administration's draft budget blueprint allotted a 10 percent increase in funding for the Census Bureau, but experts say that's not nearly enough funding in context of the decennial census's ten-year cycle.

April 13 - Science

A team at Sasaki has created the "Understanding Homelessness" website, full of interactive features and one particularly helpful data visualization.

April 13 - CityLab

A community plan update and a development proposal have led to hurt feelings and flared tempers in San Diego.

April 12 - San Diego Uptown News

Housing experts have been reading and passing around "Evicted," by Matthew Desmond, since its release last year. Now the book has won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

April 12 - Slate

Valley Metro announced a suite of bus service improvements this month, with even more potentially on the way later this year.

April 12 - Queen Creek Independent

An old wound is mitigated thanks to two Democratic legislators from Riverside County who made it clear from the onset what it would take for them to sign-on to the Road Repair and Accountability Act, California's historic fuel tax and fee increase.

April 12 - The Press-Enterprise

A how-to guide for concerned citizens and tactical urbanists interested in slowing down traffic in their community.

April 12 - Strong Towns

A new documentary film about L.A. Times food critic Jonathan Gold turns out to be an excellent film for urban planners through the culinary mapping of Los Angeles. L.A. County parks planner, Clement Lau, reviews the movie.

April 12 - UrbDeZine